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Site
Description
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Features
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Live
broadcasts from RAI
Tune in to one of
seven stations by clicking on one of the coloured tabs under the header
'Ascolta Radiorai'
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- Genuine source
of material
- Live radio
broadcasting a wide variety of material
- Seven radio
stations and an international service
- Some nice material:
I stayed listening for an hour while researching other sites
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- Don't try this
at home...without broadband
- Children in Fifth
or Sixth Class won't have much of a clue what presenters are talking
about
- Forward planning
would be recommended to find suitable programme material
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La
Repubblica newspaper
Will
it rain in Sicily today?
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- Genuine source
material
- Find out what's
topical in Italy, or read their take on international news
- Useful source of
pictures
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- Text difficult
for children to understand
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Italy
Inside Out
This
website accompanies the TV series Italy Inside Out. Both the website
and TV series focus on five key locations and the places around them
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- Features Rome,
Venice, Milan, Lecce and Sicily
- Provides links
to BBC and genuine Italian sites which feature eclectic items
like Carnevale in Venezia or recipes from Puglia
- Many of the sites
are in English
- Very suitable for
project work: lots of pictures and scope for divergent research
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- Some of the links
don't work
- Linked websites
feature content which are more suited to adults (Net Nanny won't
be needed) eg Federico Fellini's fanclub
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- 8 beautiful iPIX
views of Venice
- Text in English
describing the locations featured
- Links to
other Venetian websites
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- No Italian vocabulary
on the website
- Link provided to
online Space Invaders game: keep an eye on those kids supposed to be
researching Venice!
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- Vividly presented
child-friendly topics such as gladiators, slavery, Vesuvius...
- Interactive
activities eg choosing suitable weapons for a gladiator: will he
survive with the arms you select?
- Detailed articles
in English
- Game Death
in Rome: play the part of a Roman sleuth
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- Download times:
is your ISP provider from Pompeii?
- Articles can be
too detailed for younger children
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- Lovely pictures
and information in English on historical sites and monuments
- 17 different panoramas
to choose from
- Links to similar
sites exploring Florence, Pisa, Naples and Venice
in the same way
- Other links to
sites of varying degrees of usefulness
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- You'll need Quicktime
- Download times
can be long
- Make sure children
don't have access to your credit card details: there are links for booking
accommodation in Italy
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Italian
Steps:
an insight into contemporary Italian culture
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- All sorts of facts
and information from driving habits to food festivals
- Written in English,
but includes relevant Italian terms such as ristorante,
autostrada etc
- Linked to Steps,
which are slideshow Italian lessons based on Italian life, such
as breakfast at a roadside café. These slideshows feature native
speakers, and provide the script in English and Italian
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- The fact files
are wordy and text-driven, and resemble a guide book (but without the
pictures)
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- Thumbnails lead
to large-size images
- Watch the credit
card: the properties here are for sale
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- Up-to-date soccer
info and pictures in English
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- Detailed article
in English on the artist with links to all of his most famous works
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- All the latest
Italian and international sports news
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- Links to websites
featuring images, regions, cities and maps of Italy
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- Want to download
an audio clip of Vasco Rossi? (ugh): Sample some Italian artistes and
check out the top 20
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- Tick a box and
find out what the Italians are watching on any of their terrestrial
channels
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- Sexy cars and information
in English or Italian (or German, if you're so inclined)
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